Kamal al-Issawi

Kamal al-Issawi (28 October 1943-), also known as Ali, was a leader of the Organization of Armed Struggle alongside Carlos the Jackal and Johannes Weinrich and a former PFLP member.

Biography
Kamal al-Issawi was born on 28 October 1943 in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, and he joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1967. Issawi served as an aide to PFLP-EO leader Wadie Haddad for many years, and he met Carlos the Jackal in 1977 when Haddad and Carlos met with the Soviet Union's ambassador to discuss assassinating President of Egypt Anwar Sadat due to his making of peace with Israel. Issawi told Carlos that Haddad was sick, and when he died, the Palestinian cause would look up to him as a leader. Sure enough, when Haddad died on 28 March 1978 in East Berlin, Issawi met with Carlos in a cafe and suggested that he could work with Syria in exchange for money, support, and diplomatic cover rather than being forced to work for the Iraqi secret service. Issawi joined Carlos' Organization of Armed Struggle group from then on, working with him, his wife Magdalena Kopp, and Johannes Weinrich in their operations in Eastern Europe against "imperialist" countries in Western Europe. He was linked to the 29 March 1982 bombing of the Capitol train in Paris and other train stations, and since 2001 he was on the run from the authorities, while all of the other leaders of the revolution had already been arrested.